Sex Abuse Suit Settled against Archdiocese

By Lauren Lea
News 4 San Antonio
February 6, 2015

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The El Paso Archdiocese has settled a lawsuit with two alleged victims of sexual abuse at the hands of a now-deceased priest.

Attorneys say Father Alfonso Madrid, a Jesuit Catholic priest, sexually assaulted two boys decades ago in El Paso, but he may have victimized a child in San Antonio too.

The lawsuit against the El Paso Archdiocese uncovered an allegation of abuse at a San Antonio church, which was reported in 1968 to Madrid's superiors.

"It was reported to him that Father Madrid had taken a nine-year-old boy from the bingo hall at Our Lady of Guadalupe there in San Antonio and taken him to the rectory where he sexually abused that little boy," explained attorney Hal Browne.

The lawsuit alleges the Jesuits knew about the San Antonio abuse allegation when Madrid was transferred back to El Paso, and no investigation occurred at the time. He served at Our Lady of Guadalupe from 1966 to 1970, and Browne believes there could be other victims.